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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.
Good morning.
It is 6.06 on this Tuesday morning, July 1st.
2025.
It's another beautiful morning to have you here up north, live from Lake Wissota, from wherever you're spending your mornings, listening across the Civic Media radio network, through the app on social media, however you got here.
We appreciate it because you've made it to July.
You've made it to the second half of 2025.
And I've got a question for you.
Did you ever have to hit the ground running sooner than expected?
and later realized you still haven't had your first sip of coffee, much less the day's first cup.
That was the experience here, sitting down at my desk with my cup of coffee, said, got here a couple of minutes early.
That was good.
See what's going on in the world.
Might be a slow news day.
Oh wait, there's an announcement from Governor Tony Evers and legislative Republicans.
They have reached a budget deal and they clearly reached something detailed late yesterday.
because not only was the governor's press release ready to go out at exactly five o'clock this morning, so was the news piece from the Associated Press, so was the news piece from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, so the details were out there in what we call an embargoed group of reporters.
who were able to put that out at 5am, give us the details, and we're going to review it all.
And as I reviewed some of it and got closer to the top of the hour here, I was like, I have not had any coffee yet.
But we're on news caffeine at the moment here.
So we'll tell you more about what is in the deal.
And then at 830, Dan Schaefer will be here from the recombobulation area with his usual weekly appearance.
And I guess the way we'll put it to him is
You know that saying you know, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the very good Is this very good is is this good enough for you know for not just legislators But for supporters for allies like I would think for example of Korean Hendrickson who's been an advocate for child care Now there's a very detailed child care provision in this bill
Is it going to be good enough?
It's going to be better than what Republicans would have given if, say, Tim Michaels were in the governor's office right now.
That number would be $0.
But the number that's in there, is it going to work?
We will see.
Tony writes on YouTube, I wonder what you're going to talk about today, Pat Slow Newsday, nothing happening in Madison.
And then he goes on to wonder about this budget deal.
I wonder how many Democratic votes they are getting in the Assembly and Senate.
Well, Tony, I think I have an answer for that one based on personal experience.
I think that because the governor reached this deal with Republican leaders, it will mean a whole lot of Democrats will also vote for it and say, hey, they want to be able to say, we voted for a bipartisan deal.
It will allow a handful of Democrats in, say, tougher districts, if they want to, to vote no and be able to go home and say, I didn't vote for that because it wasn't good enough for, you know, for whatever reason.
Meanwhile, on the Republican side.
It looked like there were going to be one or two or three holdouts among Senate Republicans and then it would need Democratic votes to pass.
But now not only will those one or two or three Republicans vote no, but probably a handful of others to say that there aren't enough cuts in there.
There aren't enough favors to the wealthy for them to support it.
So it's probably going to pass.
Now it's not across the finish line yet.
The Joint Finance Committee of the legislature will
bring it up today, vote on it, then send it to, and I don't know who's getting it first.
I'm going to say it's, you know, could go to the full assembly first, where amendments are added.
And then it goes to the full Senate, where amendments are added, or vice versa.
And then once the amendments are added, it's got to go back to the other house.
And so there's still the possibility of surprises in there.
But at the moment, based on what the leaders have all agreed to,
We may be avoiding a long budget, budget less crisis here in the state of Wisconsin.
We can't say the same thing out in Washington, D.C.
where, and let's bring in Parker Olson and Madison Studio A2 where at about 558 was it Parker?
I was like, holy cow, I've been working on all this state stuff.
I don't, I haven't looked at the national.
Is there even a federal deal?
Is there?
And don't you worry, Pat.
Parker was right away very reassuring.
Don't you worry that it's as dysfunctional as ever and he's absolutely right Several senators, I guess stepped outside a couple hours back to look at the sunrise and then crawl back into their holes and try to negotiate with each other again and it is it is very clear there that you have people like Ron Johnson and others who will not support something unless there are
very drastic cuts to Medicaid, but you have more Republicans saying these cuts are too drastic.
And I don't know if the tension's there for this thing to pass or not.
So it's really
are just like, nah.
the president has said over and over, we want this done by July 4th.
We want this done by July 4th.
There's nothing special about July 4th.
What he's saying is, get this thing to my desk.
Let's get this out of here before people figure out what's in it.
And as people are figuring out what's in it, they're like, this is awful.
It's truly an awful bill.
It is a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the upper class.
It is going to make so many people's lives miserable or harmful.
And so they're, they are trying so hard to, to put lipstick on this pig and the pig just won't sit still.
And so I don't know if they're going to get it done or not.
So we'll, so we have a deal in Madison.
We may not be close to a deal in Washington, DC.
We'll monitor both.
We'll give you all the latest updates.
Uh, what's, what's new in, in Madison world down there, Mr. Olson.
today.
RIP to Parker's Youth.
It died in the middle of 2025.
I
where I'm at.
But I saw a
little bit of
starting
bit.
Remember, we talked in great detail about that about a week, week and a half ago with, I forgot about that destination that you found.
The civil twilight versus nautical twilight versus sunrise, you know, and, you know, we're usually having, you know, breakfast at a little before five AM and, and you can kind of sort of see the lake, you know, as the sun is getting set to come up and it's gorgeous because it's not sunrise yet, but it's also not winter.
We're not looking at a frozen lake.
So, you know.
All things in moderation.
Tony's got news for you, he writes on YouTube, waking up after seven, never again.
It's quite possible.
Alicia, good morning, writes in on YouTube that there was an event they had at the Appleton Library last night with storytellers on how the Trump package is going to affect people in the Fox Valley.
And so it's those kinds of events, those kinds of stories.
that are truly making an impact on folks who don't normally follow this.
People who, there's an estimate of like one third to one fourth of all, or one fourth to one third of all Americans still know nothing about what's in the bill.
And of the Americans that know what's in the bill out in Washington DC, they oppose it by a two to one margin.
So, I mean, information is the enemy for, you know, the Ron Johnson's of the world right now.
Never heard that before.
Well, it is.
That's that's exactly what it is.
So we try to spread that information here.
If you would like to join the the comment parade on YouTube or on Facebook, just head over to the up north news Facebook or YouTube pages or the civic media Facebook or YouTube pages and put down a question or a comment there.
You can also follow my Facebook page, facebook.com slash mornings with Pat quite low.
You can also find me on
Twitter, Instagram and TikTok though, I got to admit, I am, I am shirking.
I have not been posting like original stuff on Instagram or TikTok, nearly to the degree that I would like to.
I see you on Twitter now in them though.
Every now, well, I'm finally moving back to Twitter.
And by the way, it is under protest.
I do not like going back.
Oh, no one's happy to be on Twitter.
No, I mean, it's honest to goodness.
I mean, it still has this base of where you can
share information, but you're weeding past, you know, MAGA stuff that you didn't invite into your feed.
You know, Nazis in porn and probably Nazi porn.
I don't know.
And it's just, it's just a dumpster fire.
Let me tell you a
that you follow.
I know, but I also
Again, I don't want to miss like some new point of view or something and it's it's always a balancing act like okay Is it worth it to find some new sources of information or do I really have to watch?
You know this person fail at sword swallowing People put up just Vile clips and it's like what do you and by the way, I'm not asking for these this isn't like Facebook like
You know you're asking for failed source following on Facebook my mom called me yesterday, and she said Patrick I'm gonna make fun of me again, and I said well stop giving me reason to and Here's here's her latest like a loving she's she's she is not a fan of Let's say tattoos all right, okay, and But she says my Facebook feed it's just all these tattoos pictures
Mom, you're clicking on them to look at them to be disgusted by them.
And so they keep feeding you more.
So I had to teach her the algorithm and how it worked.
And I think I was helpful.
You know, I'm sure I'm sure you are.
I believe.
Yes.
Because my my wife has got it down to a science.
It is it is funny stuff and cute baby animals.
And that's that's it.
I mean, she is a level, you know, she's expert level at the algorithm.
Others, not so much.
And you try to do that with Twitter as well, but Elon Musk has got that thing set up for just, nope, here's some more garbage for you.
Hope you enjoy.
So anyway, so I'm putting stuff back there, but I'm still trying to put stuff on blue sky as well.
And yeah, I'd love to get more.
video content on tiktok and instagram and i know that that'll happen once these two budget deals are done we can go back into like video explainers and things like that so it's just uh it's just a busy very busy time a little bit going on
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Now that there is a budget deal, everybody's going to be watching Governor Tony Evers who said he was not going to make any announcement on whether he will run for a third term next year.
until after the budget is done.
It's not done yet, but it's getting closer.
And so it led to our question of the week in this issue two days ago, saying, who's going to be the Republican nominee for governor next year, whatever Evers decides.
And I know there's over a year to go until the primary, but what do you think?
And we give you some options because Tim Michaels is apparently interested.
Eric Havde is apparently interested.
Josh Showman, the Washington County executive is already committed to running.
But maybe it'll be some other politician or maybe it'll be some other rich guy who thinks that, you know, like Iran Johnson, you can just waltz into office with a big old checkbook.
So we ask what you think and that's what you get in our Question of the Week by signing up for our daily newsletter.
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All right, I'm going to tell you about some stuff on civic media and some stuff.
on Up North News.
Then we're going to cover some more of the latest on the budget battle in Washington DC.
And then after the next break and the Midwest Farm Report, I will stop teasing you and give you some of the details in the state budget agreement reached by Governor Evers and legislative Republicans yesterday.
So coming up later today on Civic Media, Matt Nair on Air follows this fine program from 9 to 11 a.m.
and the only guests they've got listed so far
is me.
I'll be on with Jane and Greg at 930.
Yeah, boy.
Tune in anyway, folks, because it's a good show otherwise with Jane and with Greg.
Of course, they'll have this shouldn't be a thing at 1050 as well.
Let's see, on the Todd Alba Show at, let's see, oh no, no, no, no, no, sorry, did not update that appropriately.
On the Maggie Dawn Show, I think Jim Santel's gonna be the guest host today.
See, now I'm doubting myself, now I gotta go look, so forgive me, I thought I had this all updated, but nope, I gotta scroll down a little bit here.
And on the Todd Alba Show today, his What's Worst segment, Cookout Condiments.
Okay, Jim Santel is indeed the guest host on the Maggie Dawn Show, guest co-host, I should say, at four o'clock.
And at 5.30, they will talk to Kristen Crowell, Executive Director of Fair Share America, holding the Stop the Billionaire Giveaway National Bus Tour.
And on Nightlight with Pete Schwabba at 6.30 tonight, Sturgeon Spirits Distillery founder Carl Lohenstein will be in the studio.
So that's some of what you'll find across the Civic Media radio network throughout the course of the day.
In our daily newsletter at Up North News, it is cherry picking season.
We have information on what to know, where to go, and how to enjoy the tart kind of cherries that grow very well here in Wisconsin Springs.
On our website, UpNorthNewsWI.com, there's an article there about all of the some of the best
fourth of July firework shows going on around Wisconsin.
And there is also on social media, you can hear from a couple of Chippewa County farmers during a visit recently from Senator Tammy Baldwin, talking about President Trump's trade war and its impact on all things agricultural in Wisconsin.
So that's just a few of the things you'll find over at Up North News on social media and our website, upnorthnewswi.com.
So in Washington right now, again, as the Senate now stretches into a third day of voting on all kinds of amendments, your first thought might be, well, is this just a Democratic delaying trick?
Are they just throwing all these amendments out there that Republicans won't support?
No, no.
I mean, that's part of it.
Yes, yes.
But there are also these Republican amendments trying to
massage the bill one way or the other to get enough Republican votes to get this thing across the finish line.
The problem is that Republicans can only afford to lose, I think, three votes and there are definitely two no votes already.
And Ron Johnson might be a no vote if, you know, they don't close more orphanages or make more cuts to Medicaid or something like that.
But others are saying these cuts, you know, are gonna kill us Republicans next year in the midterms Meanwhile back over in the House of Representatives Republicans there remember it too passed by the narrowest of margins Now they're watching the Senate tear parts of it down remake parts of it And so they have new reason to threaten to hold out when the bill comes back to them for approval
Not the least of which is the three point three trillion dollars of new debt Keep in mind that that is that is after all of the cuts to Medicaid and food assistance and the Affordable Care Act and other programs.
That's just how much more Republicans want to provide in tax
cuts to the very wealthy is that they're going to make all these cuts to programs the rest of us use and they're still going to add three trillion more onto the deficit.
The bill would raise the federal debt limit by five trillion dollars.
All of these Republicans who have been talking about we can't afford this and we can't afford that for years are about to approve a bill
that would raise the federal debt limit by five trillion dollars.
It has truly removed any credibility from Republicans who say, well, we can't afford this.
You can afford tax cuts for the super wealthy if you want to.
You're willing to put that on the nation's credit card.
So you really have lost any high ground when it comes to fiscal conservatism.
Now overnight senators voted to strip a provision out of the bill that would have effectively blocked states from passing their own laws on artificial intelligence for the next decade.
The vote was 99 to 1.
So if anybody over on the house side thinks they're putting that one back in, uh no, no they're not.
Elon Musk, who of course is now had a falling out with Republicans, has called for the formation of a new party.
He is threatening to primary Republicans who vote for the bill the way that it is currently written.
Do I think he'll follow through on that?
No.
Why?
Because a big favor to SpaceX has been put into the budget bill, and I think a lot of this is performative.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska got some kind of a sweetheart deal for rural health care spending in the bill.
The Senate parliamentarian said it's not germane to the bill and has to come out.
So maybe she won't vote for it now.
And so amendment after amendment is coming up again to try to form something that can get the barest amount of Republican votes.
What would you do in the real world?
What would the rest of us do in the real world?
We talked to Democrats and we'd say, okay, what can we do together to write a budget where you get some of what you want, I get some of what I want, and we get this all done?
That's how most normal workplaces would go.
But we're talking about the United States Congress, not a normal workplace.
Thank you for spending some time here as part of your mornings powered by UpNorth News.
We will have more on the state budget deal next.
Live from Chippewa Falls after the Midwest Farm Report, I'm Pat Crightlow.
Tomorrow on the program.
Oh, it's it's going to be a fun one.
It's Wednesday.
So we catch up with all kinds of our civic media friends.
We will have Melissa Baldoff in with climate check.
We will have James Kelly, Jimmy Koska, Earl Ingram, and of course, Melissa Kay with Pigeon Quest.
there there will surely be an update.
All of that tomorrow here on these mornings powered by up north news.
There is a feature on the civic media app that you should be making use of.
It's called the voice note feature.
Go to any station on the civic media app and use the voice note button to leave us a short audio message with a question or a comment.
We might play it on air.
You can use of course the regular
Ways the this comment sections and Facebook and YouTube or the text line again through the civic media app Which leads me to this comment when we were talking about Twitter before from Jim and Appleton try substack Pat That's becoming similar to Twitter before Elon and I got that from somebody in the comment section as well Oh, yeah, it was Mary here saying that I enjoy substack.
Well, I too have a substack and in a perfect world
That was going to be my daily show notes, which I was then going to outsource to Parker, and he would put them together.
But that hasn't happened yet.
So it's on our list.
It's on that ever expanding to do list, Parker.
It's on your list.
Yeah.
First things first, we've got some short term work to do.
But yes, I should have mentioned substack as well.
All right, I'm going to talk a bit about the state budget deal.
It is not going to be
Unfortunately, my smoothest explanation, because again, it's a comprehensive deal.
It was reached at some point yesterday, but a deal was reached to embargo the news until 5am.
And so the governor put out very detailed press release at 5am.
The journal Sentinel put out the details at 5am.
The Associated Press put out the details at 5am.
And so I'm bouncing between these.
And so forgive any redundancy.
And people will go, well, what are you doing it for then?
I mean, who wants to hear about the state budget?
You know, can't you talk about the brewers?
How the brewers do?
You haven't mentioned them at all.
Well, the brewers didn't play last night.
The brewers are headed to New York.
They are now there to take on the Mets.
Coverage begins at 5.35 tonight, tomorrow and Thursday on several civic media radio stations.
Again, head to the Civic Media website to learn more about the brewers.
So lacking a brewers game.
Let's talk about where your state tax dollars go, where those fees go that you pay for various things, and how they come back out to you in one form or another.
So the governor, a Democrat, Tony Evers, the Republicans who control the state legislature, have hammered out a two-year deal.
Every state budget is a two-year thing here.
And so the
previous deal expired yesterday.
Today is the first day of the new fiscal year.
Happy fiscal new year, everybody.
And so there will be a new budget in place eventually, hopefully in the meantime, the old budget will continue, that in this new deal, there will be income tax cuts.
There will be increased funding for the UW system.
There will be an increase in spendable funds for K-12 schools.
And there will be money put into childcare, not nearly as much as advocates were hoping, and maybe not entirely in the form they were hoping, but again, more than the zero dollars they would get if the Republican legislature had a Republican in the governor's office.
So let's start with the tax cuts.
There will be, and again, keep in mind, there's a $4 billion surplus to work with here.
So there's room for everybody to get a little bit of something.
So off the top, 1.3 billion in income tax cuts, largely targeting the middle class.
In all, more than 1.5 million people in Wisconsin will have their taxes cut on average.
Again, this is on average $180.
per year, again, depending on your bracket.
The deal would also expand the state's second lowest income tax bracket.
I wouldn't even call that a bracket.
It is so big.
I don't have it in front of me, but it's something like $60,000 to $400,000.
It's a big bracket.
It's going to make it even bigger.
It will move, if you are age 67 and over,
The first $24,000 of income will be tax-free.
It is also going to eliminate the sales tax on your electric bills.
That'll save taxpayers about $150 million over the next two years.
Over at higher education, the universities of Wisconsin would see a quarter billion dollar increase over two years, $256 million.
That is the largest funding increase to the UW system in about two decades.
Now again, 256 million is not the 855 million that the Board of Regents had asked for.
It's also not the cut of $87 million that Republicans were proposing.
Republicans got out of the deal the imposition of a minimum workload requirement for faculty, as well as an independent study on the future sustainability of the UW system.
There will be $200 million additional put into transportation projects, though there were not a lot of details on that.
Childcare will get $330 million over two years.
Now, that doesn't sound like a far cry from what the governor and childcare advocates were hoping for, but they did divvy it up a bit.
About one third of that $330 million will go to direct
payments to child care providers, similar to the child care accounts program.
But then others, other parts of the money will be used in different ways to support child care.
And I'll get to those details in just a little bit.
We've have been in touch with the Korean Hendrickson from Nucleus, who is reviewing the details and will give us some reaction, perhaps as early as 720.
Funding for special education.
is going to increase in a big way.
And let me jump over to the governor's press release because it really provides some good details on that.
And that this is the part where you forgive me for the scrolling, but I wanted to see if we could find it.
Here we go.
It is the largest percentage increase in special education reimbursement in state history.
which by the way, only recently came from like 30% reimbursement up to like 35% reimbursement.
And yet voucher schools get a 90% reimbursement on their special education costs.
Well, we're not going to 90%, but the new budget does call for 42% in the first year of the budget, 45% in the second year of the budget.
The governor says it's the highest reimbursement rate in 30 years.
There's also 30 million for his mental health services and schools initiative that is going to be happening Let's see.
I've got while I've at the governor's press release here.
Let's look a bit more at the child care There is 66 million to fund a new child care program That will support providers by helping four-year-olds prepare for the classroom There will be a
$2 million designed to help providers build capacity to be able to cut childcare waiting lists.
There will be $123 million to increase rates under the Wisconsin Shares childcare subsidy program to help lower out-of-pocket childcare costs for working families across the state.
And then there will be another pilot program to support expanding capacity across the childcare industry.
That, again, is the kind of thing Republicans were looking for, was, you know, how do we make it so that each provider can watch more kits?
And childcare providers said, well, without assistance in building that capacity, all you're saying is, you know,
throw more kids in the room and hope for the best.
And that could be a safety concern.
So again, in this case, there will be more to be done to help providers build up the infrastructure to be able to have more kids under their care.
Let's see, we've also got, oh, I did mention the proposal to eliminate the sales tax on utility bills.
That was the governor's idea that Republicans are going along with.
And let's see, all told the governor is saying that since taking office, he has now presided over 12 and a half billion dollars in tax cuts.
It includes eliminating retirement income tax for many retirees.
Oh, here's a here's something.
Creating a film tax credit and establishing a state film office in the Department of Tourism, which will allocate up to five million in film production and investment tax credits for each fiscal year.
So that's something I've heard other people talk about is why why we don't have a film credit here that can bring in a lot of business.
And so that is also part of the deal.
Let's see, from
Scott and Madison on the text line just cut to the chase.
What will be the surplus at the end of the two years on the new budget?
That it does not say here.
And I know that the heroes at the legislative fiscal bureau and as a former senator, I'm not being, I'm not engaging in hyperbole.
The heroes at the legislative fiscal bureau are surely going to continue crunching these numbers and we'll find out if there's a surplus at the end of this thing or not.
I don't think that they'll, I think that there will be a surplus.
I don't think Republicans would have gone along with spending the whole thing down.
And that's not just out of fiscal conservatism.
That's also out of a sense of they want to have a little pot of money to hand to the next governor in case a Republican wins the governor's race next year.
So let's see it also on, let's take a look at to Alicia just puts, it's enormous.
I hope she means.
I don't know if she means the utility bills.
She says, I like that we won't have a sales tax on our electric bills.
And Tony of course wants more sports talk.
Okay, so that's where we sit with all of that is a deal that as the governor says, secures the largest increase to special education reimbursement rate in state history, the largest increase to the UW system in more than two decades, over 330 million to support Wisconsin's childcare industry.
And then also,
I was about to say big cuts in taxes.
It's not up for me to say if that's a big cut in income taxes, but it will have more than one and a half billion dollars of the surplus applied toward income tax cuts that is said to be.
targeted toward the middle class, but again, I would have to see the details on that for all of that to be able to comment further.
And so I've got, I had to send some early morning texts out to legislators, some of whom are not exactly early birds.
But let's see, from State Representative Jodi Emerson, she responded.
I'm amazed.
She said she'll be on the road at that point, which makes sense because joint finance is going to be taking this up today.
And then the assembly and the Senate will take it up over the next couple of days.
And again, probably get this all passed.
There will be, again, all kinds of amendments that will be offered.
I would describe the amendment process as maybe a little less friendly in the legislature compared to in Washington D.C.
because, again, they've worked out this deal.
They don't want to, if they monkey with it too much, well, then you've got to send it back to the other house and, you know, what if they're not there?
I mean, the assembly could vote on this first.
and they could adjourn for the session and then the Senate would have to like take it or leave it.
Do you wanna look like the bad guys or are you gonna get this thing done?
So we've got some time yet to see and then the governor still has like 10 days to apply any partial vetoes.
Now it does say in the news report that the governor has pledged not to veto any of the things that are part of the deal.
So it is still possible that some of these amendments that will come on there
are things that he may not like and can strike with his veto pen.
And again, the legislature, if they want to override it, you know, get the votes and override it.
If not, that's what the partial veto is there for.
So those are the details.
We'll talk about them again with Dan Schaefer coming up at 830 from the reconbobulation area about whether this is.
good enough to attract plenty of Democratic votes as well as Republican votes and put this whole state budget deal behind us.
Today's history lesson is next as we always do.
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This is Demi Lovato.
There are those songs that are like the songs of the summer and you hear them like on a loop throughout the summer and then not so much afterwards and that was definitely the case with this one cool for the summer by Demi Lovato.
This was the song of the summer 10 years ago.
Can't believe that song is 10 years old already.
Yeah, exactly.
So Demi Lovato, cool for the summer, released this day in 2015.
On today's history lesson and we've got a lot of stuff here today, the
The British North America Act took effect this day in 1867.
What did that mean?
It created the modern nation of Canada.
Happy Canada Day to all of our friends up north.
Hey, sorry.
Yeah, that's Canada.
Canada's Independence Day today.
The first ever Tour de France bicycle race was held this day in 1903.
On this day in 1966, Bob Dylan released the first double album of the rock and roll era, Blonde en Blonde.
On
this day in 1956, the family-friendly Steve Allen show didn't want Elvis Presley shaking his legendary pelvis
And so he sang hound dog to a basset hound.
Both Elvis and the dog were dressed up in formal wear.
I love that
Elvis was humiliated and yet it expanded his audience and, you know, showed that you can have a little fun, you know, take a little poke at yourself now and then.
Whether you like it or not, that's show business.
So.
On this day in 1967 was the peak of Scott McKenzie's record, San Francisco.
This
is all that summer of love, that groovy stuff from 1967.
It reached its peak of number four.
on the singles chart this day in 1967 galvanizing the flower power movement.
Lot of birthdays today here.
Let's start with a landmark one.
Debbie Harry is 80 years old today.
Debbie Harry, born this day in 1945.
Liv Tyler is 48 years old today.
Pam Anderson is 58 years old today.
Happy birthday to Fred Schneider of the B-52s.
He is 74 years old today.
Yes, we've got we got we got variety here today.
We got it in big time.
Dan Ackroyd is 73 years old today.
Jamie Farr from Mash.
Klinger is 91 years old today.
I would love to tell you that Diana Princess of Wales turned 64 today and sadly passed away far too young at the age of 36 back in 1997.
She was born this day in 1961.
Happy birthday to Victor Willis.
You may not know him by name, but you know the village people, you know the lead singer, the policeman, that would be Victor Willis.
This day in 1987, WFAN in New York City was launched as the world's first
All sports radio station for better or for worse.
I mean, look, I'm not not going to cast stones, but I've heard some sports talk stations.
They're quite good.
You know, they're entertaining.
And I've heard some that, you know, would be better off just saying at the bar, you know, from one bar stool to the other.
Yeah.
yes.
Yes.
That is a that is a very good way to put it Happy birthday to Missy Elliott.
She is 54 years old today
On this
day in 2006 the most popular Taylor in America was Taylor Hicks
because he had just won American Idol season five and his first hit single, Do I Make You Proud, hit number one.
And I don't know if I've heard from Taylor Hicks ever since.
I
it certainly answers that, doesn't it?
All right.
Uh, zip codes were introduced for mail in the United States this day in 1963, which is why this is also National Postal Workers Day.
So thank the folks at the post office who do so much to get us the mail on time every day safely through rain, through snow, through all of that.
Yeah, this is American Zoo Day.
So, you know, is it really?
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Pat, I am
Oh, gosh, it's you and the flamingos again.
Yeah, it is.
You are becoming to flamingos what Melissa K is to pigeons over here.
You're going to adopt one, aren't you?
I mean, it'll stay at the zoo, but you're going to adopt one.
You're going to get to name it.
This could happen.
You know, agree to disagree.
Sure.
Um, yeah.
So American zoo day and this of course is national grilling month.
like you needed to tell anybody that.
I don't need that on my calendar.
I just need some Johnson Vils and some Kraut and some Kingsford and I am good to go.
Coming up yet this morning we will be talking to Lincoln County dairy farmer Hans Brighton Moser.
We'll congratulate the Trump administration for figuring out that you can't grow bananas and cocoa beans and coffee here in the U.S.
and maybe the trade war.
shouldn't reflect that.
Dan Schaefer coming along as well on these mornings powered by Up North News.
I'm Pat Critello.
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